The shaping of environmental impacts from Danish production and consumption of clothing

Ecological Economics

Volumn 83, Issue , 2012, Pages 164-173

  Jørgensen, Michael Søgaard ^a   Jensen, Charlotte Louise ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Clothing consumption; Consumer practice; Environmental management; Product chain; Supply chain; Transnational

Indexed keywords

CLOTHING INDUSTRY; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ECOLABELING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; PRICE DYNAMICS; PRICING POLICY; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RETAILING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WOMENS STATUS;

DENMARK;

EID: 84868348091     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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